Lens coating > Lens elements > Aperture blade design > internal body coating > microlens > Anti aliasing filter (found in 35mm but not in medium format) > IR filter > sensor photo well > sensor read-out (heat-sinking and/or active cooling very important here) > cables to A/D converter > A/D converter > (read-out of black calibration file from sensor recorded as adjunct to the image) > debayering algorithm, deconvolution / detail finding algorithm, noise reduction based on black calibration file > noise reduction based on image data > sharpening.
Yes. If ALL other factors are the same than a photo site with larger sensitive surface will have higher quality. However as you can see there are a LOT of other factors.
As a real world example from the P25/P20/P21 with 9 micron sensors to the P40+/P65+ with 6 micron sensors the dynamic range, shadow color accuracy, tonal gradation smoothness, and maximum possible detail at 100% have gone UP rather than down. This is because every other area of the image-quality chain has been improved.
Doug Peterson
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